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I made this as an expression of opinion. I think there is too much censorship on cartoons these days. I miss the old cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid, Loony Tunes, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren & Stimpy, ect. ect. Back then, there were explosives and violence, not like today were kids are exposed to nothing but low-brow entertanment, with the main characters being hyperactive retards with side-kicks that are exactly the same. Not only that, but they censor a lot of the original anime so it's more suitable for kids, which is retarded. Kids shouldn't even be allowed to watch anime if it has that stuff in it in the first place. As for the old cartoons I watched, they need to bring that stuff back because today's cartoons suck. It's not like those old cartoons are encouraging kids to blow up their house or hit each other with a hammer. Besides, kids don't go bad just from watching t.v., there are plenty of other things that can make them worse. If the parents don't like what their kids watch, they can just turn it off and prevent them from watching it. I grew up watching the violence, explosives and the other stuff that used to be in cartoons and my life turned out just fine.

I feel that Regular Show is falling into this. In the first few seasons, it used to be pretty raunchy, but now it's starting to become kinda generic. Worst of all, CN is starting to catch the "s" they got away with.

Courage the Cowardly Dog and Hey Arnold took on some of the really dark stuff during their time. Who remembers "The Mask", "Helga on the Couch", "Pigeon Man", "The Last of the Starmakers", "Rememberance of Courage Past", or even "Olga Gets Engaged"? Too dark for the target audience my ass.

Here, here. I have seen a couple modern cartoons that are okay, but they lack that "oomph" that cartoons had back then. Now they are seriously out of control with watering down everything. It's like, really? You really think kids are so stupid, that they would attempt to imitate some of the insane antics we have seen from cartoons of the 90's, and even the early 2000's? It not only has resulted in seriously bad quality cartoons in terms of content, and dialogue, but also is showing a great lack of faith in children using common sense, which is really insulting.

I don't blame it on cartoons so much. But I do imagine, that it might have some influence to a degree, at least in terms of taste, and the content and behaviors that are endorsed in a lot of animated media, as animated shows are a kind of "entertaining learning component" for children, at least that was how it was when I grew up, and being how children are very impressionable early in life.

Tell me about it! Parents should never fear their their kids will be bored out of their minds with hearing nothing but, "BLAH-BLAH-BLAH" coming out of the parents' mouths, and this is coming from someone who was regretfully bored shitless whenever she got pulled aside for parental lectures and was urged to sit still throughout them, regardless of how "free" she wanted to be!

That SpongeBob episode is very inappropriate, since suicide is a serious issue. It's a kid's show, so the creators should have at least made it more humorous without Mr. Krabs driving Plankton to suicide. And the way they handled it was inappropriate, too. But censorship is still wrong, so parents should at least watch a show first and decide whether the kid should watch it or not.

Yes! Parents should never fear that pulling their kids aside for lectures will bore said kids! That's why speech lessons are highly essential, along with getting told to speak in case an individual ends up having kids, and this is coming from someone who was regretfully bored to death whenever she was pulled aside for parental lectures, but was urged to sit still through them, regardless of how "free" she wanted to be, so I should be eternally grateful for having parents who diligently nurtured me that way, and of course, diligence is essentially the polar opposite of laziness! Remember, diligent parenting -> diligent kids! As for the smoking part, I guess despite smoking causing serious health problems IRL due to numerous supposedly scary anti-smoking PSAs on the airwaves, it can be considered fanservice in fictional media, which can give a whole new meaning to the term, "smoking hot!" Also, if people can see genitalia IRL, they shall see it on TV too! It'll be like a Genitalia 101 lesson! Also, swearing can spice up speech to make it sound awesome to valiant ears! I hated having to hear profanity at first constantly when I was a high school teenager, but then I ended up being mandated to read a novel with actual profanity in the text in an English class, and my life was changed forever, which can obviously be the same for being mandated to watch an R-rated film as a teaching tool after being turned off from then when she was younger! I'll say it before, and I'll say it again: Diligent parenting -> diligent kids!

There's only one thing that should be censored in cartoons: flashing. If there's too much of that in cartoons or anime, then kids could get seizures. But then again, the creators shouldn't even put the flashes in there.

It all came to be, ever since, one day, someone thought of the most idiotic idea that cartoons are meant for kids. This twisted belief becomes the default mindset for animation in general in much of the world.

Not every Japanese anime were made for kids. Many of them were made with teenagers in mind. When American distributors wanted to import these anime series to America, they had to butcher the animation by cutting out the violence and rewriting the dialogues, just so that these anime can be marketed for kids, who are much younger than the intended audience. Franchise-driven anime series such as Digimon, Beyblade, and for a while, One Piece, suffered the worst of it as a result.

You can also blame those overprotective parents as the source of many of these cartoon censorship.

Believe it or not, those older Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons during the golden age of animation were never even meant for kids in the first place. These older cartoons contain lots of violence, racism and political satire which are considered to be bad taste in today's society.

I can definitely tell why, as the lessons teenagers typically learn about in their high school classes feature content that is quite similar to the kind found in Japanese anime as a possible reason why that medium's cult following seems to consist mostly of that particular demographic. I have nothing much to say about the golden age cartoons, though.

Thank goodness I was a planned child and was diligently nurtured by word-of-mouth, along with being told to sit still through the parental lectures I got pulled aside for, as if I was expected to get zombified by them rather than bored out of my mind!

Seriously, parents act like if Cartoons are what screws their children up. If they focused less on the shows they watch and more on their kid's actual lives outside the home, then they would Finally get somewhere.

Tell me about it! No wonder I suffered from separation anxiety whenever I got left behind with a babysitter! Parents should spend more time with their kids as a way of essentially, and diligently nurturing them! Diligence is a virtue!!

the reason why cartoons are like this today is because of corporate companies who don't know how good cartoons work and whining parents who complain about the violence in show.

for example, we can agree that the disney English dub of naruto sucks while parents think it wonderful and a good influence and should be used as propaganda to make kids do better in school using naruto's personality of never giving up.

naruto is a violent show that aimed for teens not kids that watch pbs or the crappy reality shows from disney channel. and the censorship ruin naruto not only the show, but its reputation in america.

is america trying to make the world hate naruto or japanese anime cause it look like it.

that why i really hate censorship because its corrupting cartoons of today.

it the reverse to you no offence, i think the japanese is better however the acting is getting better,but i prefer the japanese version. i like pain's acting, and i got used to the other characters, just not sasuke or kushina, i saw the english dub version of naruto meeting his mom, and the cute battebane moment was killed off.

In this episode called The Last Round-Up, she talked for the first time! she had wall eyes and her voice was beautiful to every brony out there. but then some SOCCOR MOM had to step in and say Derpy is offensive to kids that are disabled and should be taken off, so Hasbro censored her and every brony blew a head gasket! they were so upset some fought Hasbro. and soon enough on the last episode of season 3 she appeared 3 or 4 times for a short while and everyone was happy again.